Clone Fun

Rating: 9/10 (29 July 2005)

The Island is not the usual Sci-Fi movie. It's not the usual fights with humans and clones nor is it about fraudness, like in Multiplicity or The Sixth Day. This is a movie first of its kind taken from the perspective of a clone.
The plot is good, and coupled with some good acting, and some awesome special effects it is quite promising. Both Ewan Mcgregor and Scarlett Johansson puts up good displays. Sean Bean puts up another great show as the ever enigmatic villain.
The story is basically, that a secret underground bunker is being used as a human clone laboratory. The clones are made so as to free the human world of pain and diseases. The clones donate body organs for transplants, bear the child for the mother, but as soon as their purposes are served they are killed away. SeanBean the person in charge of this society does a great job. For once we realize that all his intentions are good but are used as a bad propaganda. The clones as he puts it are not humans, but vegetative organisms, incapable tot think and live a life as a human. Lincoln Echo 6 was the first to break out of this rule. He started to think about the facility, kept asking questions. The clones were told that there was a massive radiation contamination in the earth, thats why people were kept there safe. Each month there was a lottery where a person was sent to a paradise isle called The Island. "The Island" in fact was no more than a myth, in other words, it was the Operation Theater for them, signifying that their purpose was served and they were to be finished of soon enough. Lincoln Echo 6 discovered the hard truth, and knowing that his best friend Jordan Delta 2 was also headed to the Islnd, he takes up matters in his own hands. He escapes the facility with her out in the real world, to face the hard truth. There was no contamination at all. After that they overcome all odds to survive in the real world, throwing off the trail of a deadly assassin after them. In the end they return to the facility to over rule the authorities freeing all the people inside.
The Action sequences of this movie is superb, makes you think back to the days of the Matrix. Don't be surprised if it walks away with an award later this year for visual effects. The camera work is superb. Ewan Mcgregor was amazing and so was Sean Bean. And you can't just describe in words how good Scarlett Johansson was. She was awesome, and SO hot.
The score was also mind blowing, (I have already ordered for my copy in amazon.com) Michael Bay does a good job in this movie, and a overall 9/10 for me...